MineCraft Family open day & Server Jam - Jan 18

Version 1.7.2 of MineCraft in the house and ready for the next steps? Server JAM day, why not come to talk to us about how your kids could learn how to turn all that game time into skills with coding? by creating their own multitool, blocks with resrouces in them and even skins as MODS or even tame their own Creeper!? EPIK is inviting you to come find out how this is can be done

While our of-springs enjoy a day of making with MineCraft, a few of us are going to be learning to make SUSHI! This is totally optional. My mum is an awesome cook and her makes are food, I am working on her doing digital making with an Arduino :) but for this day it will be food based so we can all have lunch.

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Minecraft has the scope to be a tool and not just used to be entertained, were you can write a poem in a minecraft book and share it with others to learning to code by modding the source code.

Minecraftis a sandbox construction game (akin to digital LEGO), created by Markus Persson who started coding when he was just 8 years old. The game involves players creating and destroying various types ofBlocksin a three-dimensional environment. The player takes on an avatar that can destroy or create blocks, forming simple to highly complex civil engineering structures, creations, artwork to interactable objects such as automatic irrigation systems and ancient aqueducts powered byRedstoneandLogic gates. To date, 33 million copies of Minecraft have been purchased across different platforms from PC to handheld devices.

EPIK’s focus is to encourage programming and in this workshop we will be looking into the mechanics of what makes the games we enjoy by beginning to scratch the surface of what is possible when looking at the code, exploring how properties can affect in game actions, and to create personalised custom modifications to the game.

Want to learn more on how to turn your kids from users of MineCraft to digital makers?